Business card



l EEST AVAILABLE COP:

F. A. HAYs BUSINESS CARD Septze, 192s.

Filed nec. 0, 1921 -1f/a2." Ffa-3- MIb/Ess.-

Afro/Mfg Patented Sept. 29, 1925.

UNITED STATES eEsT AVAILABLE com PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. HAYS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA., ASSIGNOR TO PENNSYLVANIAWIRE GLASS COMPANY, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEWJERSEY.

BUSINESS CARD.

Application led December 30, 1921. Serial' No. 526,018.

To all whom it 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK A. HAYs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in BusinessCards, of which the following is a speciication.

Corrugated or plain wire glass isan example of many articles ofmanufacture use- -ful as building materials and consisting of reinforcedsheets, and these are offered to the trade and to builders andarchitects by visiting solicitors or traveling salesmen who introducethemselves by means of business cards. 1

The principal object of the present invention is to provide businessCards which not only arrest the attention of possible Customers orprospects to whom they are presented but also forcibly suggest andimpress upon the memory the subject-matter of the business.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof but will be firstdescribed in Connection with its application to the wire glass businessalthough it must be remembered that the invention is not limited to thatbusiness, and in the description reference will be made to theaccompanying drawings forming part hereof and in which Figure 1 is aface view of a business Card embodying features of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an end view of such a card in corrugated form, and

Fig. 3 is an end view of such a Card in flat form.

The business card simulates an article of manufacture comprising areinforced sheet having embedded therein a reinforcement in the presentinstance corrugated or plain wire glass. The business card consists of asheet 1 of Celluloid or like material having on one face an imprint 2representing the reinforcement and creating the illusion that it isembedded in the sheet. As shown the Celluloid material is transparentand the imprint on the face of the Celluloid represents wire mesh sothat if the sheet of Celluloid is flat,`the simulation is of wire glass,and if the sheet of Celluloid is corrugated, the simulation is ofcorrugated wire glass. The imprint 2 of the reinforcement and the nameof the person or other matter of advertisement or information areprinted on the face of the Card of Celluloid or like material and thelatter can then be corrugated if desired. The material of the card isnot brittle and lends itself well to the retention of corrugated form.The imprint is made with printers ink and the ink used for the imprintof the mesh may be of paler color or more bluish than the ink used inthe imprint of .the name of the manufacturing company which latter inkmay be quite black.

I claim:

l. An article of manufacture Comprising a generally rectangular sheet ofmaterial adapted to be used as a business card and consisting oftransparent Celluloid having delineated on one face thereof an imprintrepresentative of wire mesh whereby the same simulates a piece of wireglass.

2. An article of manufacture Comprising a generally rectangular sheet ofmaterial adapted to be used as abusiness Card and consisting oftransparent Celluloid having delineated on one face thereof an imprintrepresentative of corrugated wire mesh and having corrugations formedtherein wherewire glass.

FRANK A. HAYS.

